The UK’s regulatory landscape is making sustainability a core business priority. With new laws like the Procurement Act 2023, UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive taking effect, businesses need increasingly more resourcing to prepare for stricter ESG compliance, supply chain transparency, and carbon reduction targets.
The global ERP leaders have recognised this growing need and developed new Sustainability functionalities for their solutions.
Oracle has added new features in Fusion Cloud Sustainability, including automatic transaction/ sustainability ledger entries, embedded metadata / classification rules for ESG reporting, helping customers with sustainability analytics, regulatory-aligned reporting.
NetSuite makes incremental improvements in regulatory/tax compliance (e.g. Suite Tax enhancements, for UK tax changes), improved quality / inspection workflows (lot/expiry tracking), better data integration and visibility to support audit & compliance. But these features appear less mature compared to Fusion.
Dynamics 365 adds sustainability features such as Scope 3 emissions tracking, better alignment of business operations with ESG goals. Embedded AI strengthens compliance/ regulatory processes.
At SAP sustainability is central: emission tracking, tying procurement to environmental impact, regulatory readiness and trying to embed ESG data sources into supply chain and operations are key developments for 2025.
